Reduced Order Model for the Geometric Nonlinear Response of Complex Structures

Author(s):  
Ricardo Perez ◽  
X. Q. Wang ◽  
Andrew Matney ◽  
Marc P. Mignolet

This paper focuses on the development of nonlinear reduced order modeling techniques for the prediction of the response of complex structures exhibiting “large” deformations, i.e. a geometrically nonlinear behavior, and modeled within a commercial finite element code. The present investigation builds on a general methodology successfully validated in recent years on simpler beam and plate structures by: (i) developing a novel identification strategy of the reduced order model parameters that enables the consideration of the large number of modes (> 50 say) that would be needed for complex structures, and (ii) extending an automatic strategy for the selection of the basis functions used to represent accurately the displacement field. The above novel developments are successfully validated on the nonlinear static response of a 9-bay panel structure modeled with 96,000 degrees of freedom within Nastran.

Author(s):  
Ricardo Perez ◽  
X. Q. Wang ◽  
Marc P. Mignolet

This paper focuses on the development of nonlinear reduced order modeling techniques for the prediction of the response of complex structures exhibiting “large” deformations, i.e., a geometrically nonlinear behavior, which are nonintrusive, i.e., the structure is originally modeled within a commercial finite element code. The present investigation builds on a general methodology successfully validated in recent years on simpler beam and plate structures by: (i) developing a novel identification strategy of the reduced order model parameters that enables the consideration of the large number of modes (>50 say) that would be needed for complex structures, and (ii) extending a step-by-step strategy for the selection of the basis functions used to represent accurately the displacement field. The above novel developments are successfully validated on the nonlinear static response of a nine-bay panel structure modeled with 96,000 degrees of freedom within Nastran.


Author(s):  
M.-T. Yang ◽  
J. H. Griffin

Reduced order models have been reported in the literature that can be used to predict the harmonic response of mistuned bladed disks. It has been shown that in many cases they exhibit structural fidelity comparable to a finite element analysis of the full bladed disk system while offering a significant improvement in computational efficiency. In these models the blades and disk are treated as distinct substructures. This paper presents a new, simpler approach for developing reduced order models in which the modes of the mistuned system are represented in terms of a sub-set of nominal system modes. It has the following attributes: the input requirements are relatively easy to generate; it accurately predicts mistuning effects in regions where frequency veering occurs; as the number of degrees of freedom increases it converges to the exact solution; it accurately predicts stresses as well as displacements; and it accurately models the deformation and stresses at the blades’ bases.


Author(s):  
Ilaria Palomba ◽  
Dario Richiedei ◽  
Alberto Trevisani

Resonant system design and optimization is usually supported by finite element models. Large dimensional models are often needed to achieve the desired accuracy in the representation of the vibrational behaviour at the frequency of interest. Unfortunately, large dimensional models are frequently too cumbersome to be actually useful, mainly at the optimization stage. On the other hand, the choice of the most appropriate reduction strategy and dimension for a reduced-order model is generally left to designers’ experience. Having recognized the effectiveness and spreading of the Craig Bampton reduction technique, the aim of this paper is to propose a rigorous ranking method, called Interior Mode Ranking (IMR), for the selection of the interior normal modes of the full order model to be inherited by the reduced order one. The method is aimed at finding the set of interior modes of minimum dimensions which allows achieving a desired level of accuracy of the reduced order model at a frequency of interest. The method is here applied to a resonator widely employed in industry: an ultrasonic welding bar horn, which is usually designed to operate excited in resonance. The results achieved through the application of the IMR method are compared with those yielded by other ranking techniques available in literature in order to prove its effectiveness.


Author(s):  
Allan X. Zhong ◽  
Haoyue Zhang

Abstract Engineering analysis of complex structures or mechanical systems typically involves contact with multiple components, large deformation, and material nonlinearity, which requires the application of nonlinear finite element methods. Despite the advancement of commercial software for finite element analysis (FEA), nonlinear FEA of a multi-component mechanical assembly will take hours to days, and even weeks to complete. It is highly desired to develop a reduced-order model for a family of complex structures that can reduce an original problems’ complexity and degree of freedom but has a reasonably small discrepancy with the full model and significantly reduces the computation time. The typical approach to construct a reduced model includes 1) the response surface method via numerical design of experiments and, 2) the simplified physics approach. In this paper, it is proposed to develop a reduced model through the combination of simplified physics, dimensional analysis [1], and numerical design of experiments. The approach is applied to the construction of a reduced model for the analysis of a downhole plug [2]. The developed reduced model is verified by full-scale FEA models and validated through physical tests. The reduced model is implemented in a spreadsheet and takes only seconds to complete a calculation in contrast to hours using a full FEA model, enabling engineers’ quick evaluation of the corresponding designs.


2015 ◽  
Vol 786 ◽  
pp. 398-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kulkarni Atul Shankar ◽  
Manoj Pandey

In this paper, a reduced order model is obtained for nonlinear dynamic analysis of a cantilever beam. Nonlinearity in the system is basically due to large deformation. A reduced order model is an efficient method to formulate low order dynamical model which can be obtained from data obtained from numerical technique such as finite element method (FEM). Nonlinear dynamical models are complex with large number of degrees of freedom and hence, are computationally intensive. With formulation of reduced order models (i.e. Macromodels) number of degrees of freedom are reduced to fewer degrees of freedom by using projection based method like Galerkin’s projection, so as to make system computationally faster and cost effective. These macromodels are obtained by extracting global basis functions from fully meshed model runs. Macromodels are generated using technique called proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) which gives good linear fit for the nonlinear systems. Using POD based macromodel, response of system can be computed using fewer modes instead of considering all modes of system. Macromodel is generated to obtain the response of cantilever beam with large deformation and hence, simulation time is reduced by factor of 90 approximately with error of order of 10-4. Further, method of POD based reduced order model is aplied to beam with different loading conditions to check the robustness of the macromodel. POD based macromodel response gives good agreement with FEA model response for a cantilever beam.


Author(s):  
Mohammad I. Younis ◽  
Danial Jordy ◽  
James M. Pitarresi

We present computationally efficient models and approaches and utilize them to investigate the dynamics of microbeams under mechanical shock. We explore using a hybrid approach utilizing a beam model combined with the shock spectrum of a spring-mass-damper model. We conclude that this approach is computationally efficient and yields accurate results in both quasi-static and dynamic loading conditions. We utilize a reduced-order model based on the nonlinear Euler-Bernoulli beam model. We demonstrate that this model is capable of capturing accurately the dynamic behavior of microbeams under shock pulses of various amplitudes (low-g and high-g), in various damping conditions, structural boundaries (clamped-clamped and clamped-free), and can capture both linear and nonlinear behavior. We investigate high-g loading cases. We report significant increase in the computational cost of simulations when using traditional nonlinear finite-element models because of the activation of higher-order modes. We demonstrate that the developed reduced-order model can be very efficient in such cases.


1999 ◽  
Vol 123 (4) ◽  
pp. 893-900 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.-T. Yang ◽  
J. H. Griffin

Reduced-order models have been reported in the literature that can be used to predict the harmonic response of mistuned bladed disks. It has been shown that in many cases they exhibit structural fidelity comparable to a finite element analysis of the full bladed disk system while offering a significant improvement in computational efficiency. In these models the blades and disk are treated as distinct substructures. This paper presents a new, simpler approach for developing reduced-order models in which the modes of the mistuned system are represented in terms of a subset of nominal system modes. It has the following attributes: the input requirements are relatively easy to generate; it accurately predicts mistuning effects in regions where frequency veering occurs; as the number of degrees-of-freedom increases it converges to the exact solution; it accurately predicts stresses as well as displacements; and it accurately models the deformation and stresses at the blades’ bases.


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